If you’re like everyone else, you’ve tightened the lug nuts on your car without using a torque wrench. You’re an “all the muscle you can put into it” kind of guy, and now you’re staring at a broken ...

Despite not offering really any kind of performance improvement, some modifications are still worth the time and money. One of these is installing wheel studs on cars that didn’t come with them from ...

Installing different wheels or wheel spacers will sometimes reduce the number of threads inside the lug nuts, which is referred to as the lug nuts’ thread engagement. When we installed a three-piece ...

If you don’t use the proper tools, you’ll never know how much – or how little – clamping force you have on the wheels. Wheel installation is pretty simple, right? Bolt ’em on, torque ’em down and ...

What is a wheel spacer? It's just that: a mechanical component that spaces your wheel away from the original wheel mounting surface. They can be as simple as a cast or machined metal spacer that goes ...

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (July 7, 2003)—Proper torque is not something that's essential to only commercial vehicle maintenance. In the April 28 issue of Tire Business, I talked about the importance of ...